#craig zisk

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Reflection shots in Interview with the Vampire Season 2.

Episodes 5 & 6: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape (dir. Craig Zisk) & Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light (dir. Emma Freeman).

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HALO, Season Two (2024)

Directed by Debs Paterson, Craig Zisk, Otto Bathurst & Dennie Gordon

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Tulsa King

Season 2, “Back in the Saddle”

Director: Craig Zisk

DoP: John Lindley

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14.06.2023

#Mira-Marathon | MCU

Serial

Name: Agent Carter | 1 season | 2015

Production studios: ABC Signature, Marvel Television, Fazekas & Butters;

Director by: Jennifer Getzinger, Metin Hüseyin, David Platt, Lawrence Trilling, Craig Zisk, Stephen Cragg, Louis D'Esposito;

Screenwriters: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Brant Englestein, Jose Molina, Andi Bushell, Brandon Easton, Michele Fazekas;

Starring: Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Enver Gjokaj, Chad Michael Murray, Shea Whigham;

Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Crime;

Running Time: One series – 42 minutes | All series – 5 hours, 36 minutes

"Agent Carter" is a 2015 television series about Peggy Carter working for the SSR, released in 8 episodes. In 1946, she leads a secret investigation with the help of Howard Stark to uncover a dangerous weapons plot, but faces charges of treason and begins to doubt her employer's true innocence. The season has an engaging storyline, a great cast and a vibrant style, exploring themes of overcoming and friendship.

My rating: 8/10

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I always find it so wonderfully interesting when people prefer IWTV S1 to S2 but, tbh, they're both great seasons of television.

When I saw S1 as it premiered, I consistently struggled with it. There were (and to this day are) parts of it that severely pissed me off. "A Vile Hunger..." (1x5) is still the episode I like to rewatch the least, for example. It took me watching S1 twice to totally love the show. And it's because, when I saw S1, I was holding onto the source material while I watched.

This was fucking stupid on my part, especially given I took a class on adaptation while at Uni and got the academic tools to discern what makes for a good adaptation in film terms (I've talked about other adaptations with people who are book readers first and they tend to view it way differently). Hell, I wrote a thesis on why Clueless is a great adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma regardless of the change of setting in both time and place.

But IWTV was way too personal to me, it went back to my childhood, so it was hard to let go. I did instantly love a lot of the changes. I love the time change and the change to Louis' race and background. I love that we saw more of Louis pre-vampirism and that show Louis has more complex reasons for his long term struggles whereas book Louis just seemed so whiny to me for no reason. On the other hand, I struggled with: why is it a second interview, why was Claudia SA-ed, why the DV, why is fucking Antoinette a canker sore that never leaves, why the fuck is Armand in Dubai, what the fuck is happening with this timeline? I couldn't let go and my viewing experience suffered for it.

When I sat down to watch a second time, I said, "Ok, do what you were taught and let the source go. Adaptations cannot be 1:1 due to the change in medium". And that's when things started clicking. I stopped viewing S1, and the show as a whole, as needing to use the books as a plot bible and viewed it as using them as a guidebook to function on TV terms and tell its own version of the story. It allowed me to appreciate the things I loved much more and to understand the ones I hadn't been so sure about and, even, love some of those things.

For S2, I went into it with that mentality already so I solely judged it on film/TV terms even though, having read books 1-4 and 6 and reading about the rest, I saw subtle things people with no knowledge of the source canon did not. Like when YT reactors consistently worried about Daniel being killed and I'm just filing my nails because, to those in the know, Daniel has massive plot armour. Or people being confused about Raglan James and I'm sat there like wtf does this trifling ass want? Nevertheless, I enjoyed the tale as it was told and what it was on solely TV terms.

Both season are great television but, to me, S2 just took it up a notch. Daniel Hart popped off extra hard. Carol Cutshall popped off extra hard in costuming (stg she played faves because why did Armand get more fashion slays than anyone else? ^_^). The sets went extra hard. The acting, which was already superb in S1 because this is a fucking excellent cast (Jacob, Sam, Eric, Bailey, and Delainey 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼), went harder as well because we have more players such as Ben Daniels doing the absolute MOST with Santiago, Roxane Duran being absolutely OUTSTANDING as the formidable Madeleine, and Assad Zaman stepping out from the background and giving a STUNNING performance as, to me, what's clearly the definitive Armand. To my taste, S2 is a lot less slow and I felt the pot boiling tension to the explosive ending build more keenly than in S1. And, again to my taste, the ending of S2 felt more satisfying because we have a sense of completion in Louis' journey rather than a, admittedly dope, cliffhanger. S2 has, arguably, the 3 best episodes of the show so far in "Don't Be Afraid..." (2x5) "I Could Not Prevent It" (2x7), and "And That's The End of It..." (2x8). For me, there's just no contest.

And yeah S2 isn't perfect either. The abrupt episode endings, for example, are a bit annoying---especially the end of 2x4. Yes, there's bits I would've changed a bit. (Though I will say, some book readers apparently wanted the show to include book Armand's Franken-experiments and I could very much do without it ever being included because it serves no narrative purpose other than to prolong Claudia's suffering. The show already goes hard to show Armand is a fucking asshole in other ways and it's gonna add to that in S3. We don't need that detail.) But, as a season of television, it just went the extra mile.

Still, I love that some people prefer S1. I love that they prefer S1 because it's more intimate or because it's more of a family season or because of the good Louis and Lestat moments or the good vampire family moments. Or maybe they love it for other reasons, it's all very personal.

I still think "In Throes of Increasing Wonder" is an outstanding pilot and it's one of my favourite episodes. Louis' confessional scene/the church scene is definitely one of the top moments of the show. Claudia's monologue at the end of "The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood..." still gives me goosebumps. Claudia stomping on Antoinette's fucking face and Daniel reading Louis to absolute FILTH at the end of "The Thing Lay Still" both make me clap and stomp like I'm at a concert or a sporting event.

Either way, S1 or S2, it's great TV and it deserves more love and recognition. I hope it gets it because it's truly deserving. Maybe we just need to hear our Brat Prince have his say for the uninitiated to awaken to it. S3 I have been seated since they made the call to release that teaser.

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Assad Zaman in Interview with the Vampire season 2 episode 5 (2024) dir. Craig Zisk

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"And what were you gonna ask him if he could talk? Who made you? And then what? Who made the one that made you? What are we looking for here, Adam and Eve of the damned? God?! Are we looking for God, Claudia?!"

2024 favourites: Interview With The Vampire, S02E01, 'What Can The Damned Really Say To The Damned?' Dir. Craig Zisk

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BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (2013-2021) ↳ Season 1, Episode 17 "Full Boyle" dir. Craig Zisk

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Interview with the Vampire, 2024, dir. Craig Zisk

SE02E05 Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

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I’ve never been in this position before. I’ve always run unopposed.

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (2013-2021) S01E17 "Full Boyle" dir. Craig Zisk

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Let’ s put a bit aside Devil Minion obsession for one minute and let’s talk about the vibe and esthetic of this beautiful singular episode 5 (shout out to Craig Zisk who also directed the first episode in Eastern Europe, the 2 best episodes so far in my opinion)

Daniel mentioned the Zodiac killer cause he operated in San Francisco a bit before 1973. But his MO didn’t match Louis and Armand’s at all. This mention of a serial killer is not there randomly though imho cause this episode screams serial killer vibe, in what’s happening and what’s said (128 victims) but also in the whole esthetic and lighting of the flat, the body wrapped in plastic, the paper pages glued on windows. More precisely, I think they took inspiration from Jeffrey Dahmer, a killer of Wisconsin that was in activity in the 80’s. We know a lot about his flat and there were a lot of adaptations of his atrocities, the serie Dahmer being the latest.

As you can see there is the same dim light yellow oppressive esthetic in the two shows, and the furniture and flat are quite similar (you can say it’s just seventies esthetic but I think it is not just that). Dahmer used to pick up his victims in gay bar and clubs and chosed sometimes drug addicts. (The only thing different here is that the black man is not the victim but the killer). In the different medias about Dahmer there are often a victim moaning in the bedroom or one in the fridge when an other one is tortured in the living room, similar with Daniel in the living room, Louis wounded in the bedroom and the guy wrapped up in the plastic bag. Plus Dahmer used to drill into his victim brains to lobotomise them and put them to rest before eating them or raping them, similar to what Armand does to Daniel, metaphorically drilling in his brain with his mind gift.

What do you think about this theory ? Did you notice that as well ?

[greedandenby]

Frame within a frame shots in Interview with the Vampire Season 2.

Episodes 5 & 6: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape (dir. Craig Zisk) & Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light (dir. Emma Freeman).

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"krapp's last tape: the evolution of a play" (james knowlson, 1976) // "don't be afraid, just start the tape," interview with the vampire (wr. jonathan ceniceroz and hannah moscovitch, dir. craig zisk, 2024) // krapp's last tape (samuel beckett, 1958)

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Tulsa King

Season 2, “Kansas City Blues”

Director: Craig Zisk

DoP: John Lindley

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“It was just something she wrote. But it wasn't true. She could dream.”

Interview with the Vampire | [2.1] What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned, dir Craig Zisk

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